Pearl, Alexa
Summary: Sasha and her better-than-best friend Wyatt have discovered Crystal Cove, the magical land where other flying horses live! - Cover, page 4.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction PearlPears, Iain.
Summary: n 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie. One day, while chasing Lytten's cat, Rosie encounters a doorway in his cellar. She steps through and finds herself in an idyllic, pastoral land where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAMenard, Rachel
Summary: Seventeen-year-olds Gen and Castor of Olympia race to be the first to complete six nearly impossible challenges to obtain their greatest desire, and only one will win while the other walks away with nothing--if she walks away at all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flux 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MENBear, Elizabeth
Summary: The Gage and the Dead Man brought a message from the greatest wizard of Messaline to the ruling queen of Sarathai, one of the Lotus Kingdoms. But the message was a riddle, and the Lotus Kingdoms are at war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABear, Elizabeth
Summary: "From the start of her career, Elizabeth Bear has been one of the most distinctive voices in modern speculative fiction. Her debut novel, Hammered, won the Locus award for Best First Novel in 2005, the same year she received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. In the years since, she has produced an impressive array of stand-alone novels (Undertow) and multi-volume series (The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABear, Elizabeth.
Summary: "Re Temur, legitimate heir to his grandfather's Khaganate, has finally raised his banner and declared himself at war with his usurping uncle. With his companions--the Wizard Samarkar, the Cho-tse Hrahima, and the silent monk Brother Hsiung--he must make his way to Dragon Lake to gather in his army of followers. But Temur's enemies are not idle; the leader of the Nameless Assassins, who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABear, Greg
Summary: Bear's work contains sweeping futuristic vistas populated by creatures spawned from a decaying universe. The young heroes, each assigned to protect a fragment of the universe's history, must survive long enough to pass that knowledge onto the new universe that is being born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books/DelRey 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABear, Greg
Summary: "A sweeping Elizabethan historical fantasy from an internationally renowned author that evokes the seafaring adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson with the magic of The Bear and the Nightingale"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABear, Elizabeth.
Summary: Bijou the Artificer has been a wizard of Messaline for eighty years, building her servants from precious scraps, and now she is ready to rest. But a former apprentice brings her a child poisoned by a sorcerous infection, the first sign that Kaulas the Necromancer--Bijou's old nemesis and love--is unleashing a reeking half-death on the City of Jackals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABear, Elizabeth.
Summary: Exiled heir Re-Tamur and his wizard friend Sarmarkar take on the dark forces that are determined to conquer the great Empires along the Celedon Road.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAPolydoros, Aden
Summary: "Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he'll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POLBear, Elizabeth.
Summary: Going into exile after barely escaping a war waged by his cousin and brother, Temur, the grandson and heir of the Great Khan, teams up against an enemy cult with former princess Samarkar, who after a series of bitter betrayals has pursued a life of magical study.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABear, Greg
Summary: Facing the imminent collapse of their civilization, the Librarian and the Ur-Didact reveal what they know about the relationship between the long-vanished Precursors and the Flood. Facing the consequences of a mythic tragedy, one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all time -- to prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABodard, Aliette de
Summary: "Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the powerful faraway country of Ephteria as a child. Now she's returned to her mother's imperial court, haunted not only by memories of her first romance, but by worrying magical echoes of a fire that devastated Ephteria's royal palace. Thanh's new role as a diplomat places her once again in the path of her first love, the powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BODPolydoros, Aden
Summary: "From the author of The City Beautiful comes a haunting fantasy following Toma, adopted daughter of the benevolent undead, making her way across a civil war-torn continent to save her younger sister as she discovers she might possess magical powers herself. The Kosa empire roils in tension, on the verge of being torn apart by a proletarian revolution between magic-endowed elites and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POLPolydoros, Aden
Summary: Lithuania, 1943. A father drowns in the all-consuming grief of a daughter killed by the Nazis. He can't bring Chaya back from the dead, but he can use kishuf, an ancient and profane magic to create a golem in her image. A Nazi killer, to avenge her death. When Vera awakens, she can feel her violent purpose thrumming within her. But she can also feel glimpses of a human life lived, of stolen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POLHarrow, Alix E.
Summary: "USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined. "A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARBell, Alex
Summary: "Stella Starflake Pearl has been expelled from the Polar Bear Explorers' Club. But that's not going to stop her and the rest of the junior explorers from embarking on another exceptionally perilous expedition. It hasn't been long since Shay was bitten by a witch wolf, but he's in danger of turning into one himself. Only an ice queen's long-lost spell book and Stella's ice princess magic has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Bell 2020Bledsoe, Alex.
Summary: "No one knows where the Tufa came from, or how they ended up in the mountains of East Tennessee. When the first Europeans came to the Smoky Mountains, the Tufa were already there. Dark-haired and enigmatic, they live quietly in the hills and valleys of Cloud County, their origins lost to history. But there are clues in their music, hidden in the songs they have passed down for generations. . ....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLEBledsoe, Alex.
Summary: "Long Black Curl: a brand-new tale in Alex Bledsoe's acclaimed urban fantasy series, where magic is hidden in plain sight and age-old rivalries simmer just beneath the surface In all the time the Tufa have existed, only two have ever been exiled: Bo-Kate Wisby and her lover, Jefferson Powell. They were cast out, stripped of their ability to make music, and cursed to never be able to find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLEBledsoe, Alex.
Summary: In the isolated ridges and hollows of the Smoky Mountains, musician Rob Quillen comes to Cloud County, Tennessee, in search of a song that might ease his aching heart and instead gets caught up in a subtle power struggle he can't begin to comprehend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLEGrecian, Alex
Summary: "Sadie Grace is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive). And every hired gun in Kansas is out to collect the bounty on her head, including bona fide witch hunter Old Tom and his mysterious, mute ward, Rabbit. On the road to Burden County, they're joined by two vagabond cowboys with a strong sense of adventure - but no sense of purpose - and a recently widowed school teacher with nothing left to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREJennings, Alex
Summary: "In a fantastical version of New Orleans where music is magic, a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song in this vibrant and imaginative debut contemporary fantasy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENAster, Alex
Summary: "WELCOME TO THE CENTENNIAL. Every hundred years, the island of Lightlark appears for only one hundred days to host a deadly game, where the rulers of six realms fight to break their curses and win unparalleled power. Each ruler has something to hide. Each curse is uniquely wicked. To break them, and save themselves and their realms, one ruler will die. To survive, Isla Crown must LIE. CHEAT....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022